Henry Eliot

Henry Eliot

Writer, Editor, and host of Read the Classics with Henry Eliot

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Henry Eliot is the author of The Penguin Classics Book (2018), The Penguin Modern Classics Book (2021), and Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists (2022). He is currently an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing in London and has previously worked as the classics editor at Faber & Faber and Penguin Classics. He is also the host of Read the Classics with Henry Eliot on Substack.

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Classic literature reveals how resilience can be both a source of strength in troubled times — and a dangerous ideal.